THE LENIN FOUNDRY IN NOWA HUTA: EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A032800690001-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 6, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT The Lenin 'foundry' in., Nowa tHu is..
Equipment End Production
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1. I the equipment at present installed in the Leni Vb%ndry in
NgrarHutet consisted of two blast furnaces; an open hearth shop with five
furnaces, all Siemens -Martin type, two of which were fixed and l ?iia. ?
the+o4kers, tipping; a blooming mill;and a hot strip mill.
2. The hot strip mill produced 1.2 million tons of medium and thick mild
steel plate, the finest being 4 mm. This was just under
50 percent of the capacity of the works; it was hoped to reach a figure
of 3 million tons by 1970.1
3. Current plans includeda third blast furnace and a cold rolling mill.
The latter will produce .01-mm. mild steel and will be completed in
1957 if credit is available, otherwise 1958.
4. Nova Huta used domestic ore and scrap, but relied also 111,131 ore
and, more recently, on ore from
5. All the pig produced in the works was used in the works.~
the mill was short of pig and was working at reduced capacity.
the ingots appeared
-1 to be loaded at intervals of approximately-three minutes.
6. No. 1 furnace was fixed, and all furnaces were gas-fired. There were four
coke batteries, each of 120 ovens. They were situated some distance from
the furnaces,at the opposite end of the works, and the gas was piped from
the ovens to the furnaces. The coke vas pulverized by the machine which
also charged the ovens. This was a twenty-two hour process, including
pulverizing, for each oven.
7. No hard or alloy steel %.S produced.
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8. Toluol and toluene were produced as byproducts in the works. Some byproducts
were shipped elsewhere for further processing. 2,
described the Nq1 Huta works as a white elephant. Little of the steel
produced is required in Poland itself and at least 80 percent is exported,
mainly to Communist China. Poland, to maintain production, has to p-Urchase
expensive ore to keep
it going. Both the ore and the finished plate have to be transported long
distances, e.g. from Gdynia. the works did not
and never could be made to pay, but there was little the
Poles could do about it now since cutting or abandoning production would
mean not only a huge economic loss, but it would create an even greater
social problem. 18,000 workers had been brought, many -under compulsion, to
Nova Huta, and they could never be resettled.
the Ministry of Foreign Trade in Warsaw
C?mment. The figure of 3 million given in paragraph 2 above,
included the production of the cold rolling mill and also
allows for the additional blast furnace,
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